Things ended badly for the Las Vegas Raiders and Jon Gruden, the head coach resigned after a deep investigation revealed that the NFL found evidence pointing to Gruden as racist, misogenic and sexist. In addition to those hefty accusations, Gruden repeatedly taunted various NFL players.
The investigation began with an isolated issue, as one of the emails where Gruden referred to DeMaurice Smith in a racist way was found on the computers of the Washington Football Team during an investigation that had nothing to do with Jon Gruden or the Raiders. After the email went out, Jon Gruden said:
“That might not have been the best time of my life. I vented a lot. I never felt we were getting the truth and honesty. I’m ashamed I insulted De Smith,” Gruden said, adding, “I never had a racial thought when I used it. I’m embarrassed by what’s out there. I certainly never meant for it to sound that bad.” (In 2011, Gruden was working for ESPN.)
Rich Bisaccia is the new interim head coach after the resignation of Jon Gruden, he will be in charge of the Las Vegas Raiders until an official announcement is made about the new head coach, but there are chances that Bisaccia will keep the job for the remainder of the 2021 NFL season.
Jon Gruden resigns as Raiders head coach: Funniest Memes And Reactions
The first reaction that everyone expected, especially the Raiders fans, was the official announcement or at least the official tweet from the Las Vegas Raiders social media handle, the team was somewhat slow to react but in the end they sent a tweet with the Jon Gruden’s last words as head coach.
“I have resigned as Head Coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. I love the Raiders and do not want to be a distraction. Thank you to all the players, coaches, staff, and fans of Raider Nation. I’m sorry, I never meant to hurt anyone.”
Jon Gruden
— Las Vegas Raiders (@Raiders) October 12, 2021
Even with his father resigning tonight as the Raiders’ head coach, Deuce Gruden remains the team’s strength and conditioning assistant coach.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 12, 2021
Jon Gruden right now pic.twitter.com/bPOyeINQ26
— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) October 12, 2021
Urban Meyer after seeing all the attention go to Jon Gruden pic.twitter.com/oYmT3m2fBw
— Footballism™ (@FootbaIIism) October 12, 2021
Per the @nytimes, commissioner Roger Goodell instructed league executives to look at more than 650,000 emails during the past few months during its investigation into the workplace culture of the Washington Football Team.
The only emails we’ve gotten so far are about Jon Gruden. https://t.co/OCzU37ZsFS
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) October 12, 2021
Jon Gruden be like… pic.twitter.com/f5ZnoGRFIZ
— TPS (@TotalProSports) October 12, 2021
“As somebody who played for him, it’s highly, highly, disappointing to say the least.”
—@LRiddickESPN on Jon Gruden pic.twitter.com/QjUE8clTRV
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) October 12, 2021
The firing of Jon Gruden is just helping prove that Colin Kaepernick was right.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) October 12, 2021
So…..we’re talking a ton of emails well beyond Gruden. Starting to understand why the NFL wanted to settle with Kaepernick on his collusion case.
— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) October 12, 2021
Gruden trying to get his job back at Corona HQ pic.twitter.com/tZ1s0DImN0
— Ryan Perry (@rynprry) October 12, 2021
It was terrible of the cancel culture to create dozens of racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic emails using Jon Gruden’s account all those years.
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) October 12, 2021
Sad thing is, yeah, Gruden is rightfully out of a job, but he’s not at all the only person in the league who thinks and talks that way. That’s why he felt so comfortable communicating like that.
— Mike Jones (@ByMikeJones) October 12, 2021
Jon Gruden wrote some “misogynistic” emails.
Meanwhile… pic.twitter.com/Zp7jGl3Qjt
— Maze (@mazemoore) October 12, 2021
This story does not end here, what happened to the other 650,000 emails found in the offices of the Washington Football Team, the Raiders fans have many questions about it. Jon Gruden cannot possibly be the only one who sent racist messages by email.
